Peer to Peer Overlays Construction Over Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Mobile and wireless technology has achieved great progress in recent years. Today’s cell phones, PDAs and other handheld devices have larger memory, higher processing capability and richer functionalities. The user can store more audio, video, text and image data with handheld devices. These devices are also equipped with low radio range technology, like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. By means of the low radio range technology, they can communicate with each other without using communication infrastructure (e.g. cellular infrastructure) and form a mobile ad hoc network (MANET). Due to high capability of the mobile devices, P2P networks can be deployed over MANET composed of mobile devices. This book discusses the design of an efficient P2P overlay over MANET keeping in view the unique characteristics of MANET, such as nodes’ mobility, scarce of power energy, limited memory and infrastructure less nature.